AMD Radeon R9 370X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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AMD Radeon R9 370X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1178MHz vs 1030MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370X +9%

2.637 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Jan 2015

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1030 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

82.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.637 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

164.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

GM206

Trinidad XT

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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